Private AI for Law Firms
Your documents.
Your cases.
Answered instantly.
Sidebar gives your firm a private AI assistant that reads your case files, surfaces citations, and answers questions — without sending data outside your walls.
The Problem
Law firms run on documents. Finding answers shouldn't take hours.
Buried in PDFs
Associates spend hours manually searching hundreds of pages per case — re-reading the same exhibits, briefs, and filings just to find a single date or clause.
No institutional memory
When senior attorneys leave, their case knowledge walks out the door. Years of strategy, precedent research, and client history — gone overnight.
Generic AI isn’t enough
ChatGPT doesn’t know your documents, your clients, or your filing deadlines. General-purpose AI hallucinates when it matters most — in legal work.
How It Works
Set up in a day. Running in the background forever.
Upload your case documents
Drop in PDFs, ZIPs, or connect Google Drive. Sidebar ingests and indexes everything — briefs, exhibits, correspondence, and filings.
Ask questions in plain English
Query a single case or search across your entire document library. Ask about deadlines, clauses, case history, or anything in your files.
Get cited answers, instantly
Every response includes the exact source file and page number. No hallucinations, no guessing — just grounded answers you can trust.
Features
Built for how law firms actually work.
Private RAG Engine
Answers grounded in your documents only. Nothing leaves your server — runs fully on-premise via Docker. Your data stays yours.
Citation-First Responses
Every answer includes the source file and page number. No hallucinations, no guessing. Verify any claim in seconds.
Case Intelligence
Auto-generates case summaries and task roadmaps. Detects immigration case types — H-1B, EB-2, asylum — and tailors analysis accordingly.
USCIS Tracker + Integrations
Tracks case receipt numbers, monitors status changes, and ingests documents from Google Drive or email automatically.
What Firms Are Saying
Trusted by firms that take their documents seriously.
“We used to spend 3–4 hours per case just pulling together filing timelines from scattered exhibits. Sidebar does it in under a minute — with page citations I can verify immediately. It paid for itself in the first week.”
“The case intelligence feature caught a missed RFE deadline that would have cost us a client’s H-1B approval. Having every answer grounded in our actual documents — not some generic AI model — is the difference between a tool and a liability.”
Ready to stop searching
and start answering?
See how Sidebar works with your documents in a 15-minute walkthrough.
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